The benefactions of Mr George Peabody amouut to over £600,000. . ;" .' _ ' ; ■;•* A few days since, (Bays a late English paper) a person brought a large box into the doorway of a wealthy shop in Turin, and asked permission tp leave it for a few hours. Closing time arrived, and, as the box still remained, it was reared on end against the wall to be out of ?the way. In the morning blood was observed oh : the floor, and the alarmed tradesman having procured assistance opened the box, and found within it the dead body of a notorious thief.. The design was ird* r mediately apparent, but it, had been most un wittingly frustrated through the box having been reared upside down. The would-be robber'a head was where his feet should have been, Tha ■ difficulty of respiration had been increased by thi?, and suffusion of the brain, B,rxd the ruptuM "of " fk Idcißdi' T-ft-f^'lno,' |i_ll4w-Qclt- *~"-- ! -
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Southland Times, Issue 647, 22 March 1867, Page 2
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